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Jerusalem Congress

Summer’s Star—The Meetings of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament

The highlight of last summer’s scholarly meetings was clearly the XIIth Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT), which held its sessions in Jerusalem from August 24 through August 29.

There were, to be sure, numerous other estival scholarly convocations of note and worth: the SNTS (Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas) in Atlanta, the International Byzantine Congress in Washington, the International SBL (Society of Biblical Literature), the CBA (Catholic Biblical Association), the IOMS (International Organization of Masoretic Studies), the IOSCS (the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies) and others.